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This Is What Winning Looks Like - Trailer

Filmmaker and author Ben Anderson went to Afghanistan in 2007 and stayed for six years. 'This Is What Winning Looks Like' is his disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces and the role of US Marines during the troop withdrawal. It premieres Monday, May 13, on VICE.com. Full story

The VICE Podcast Show - Have We Won in Afghanistan?

This week on the podcast we speak with author and filmmaker Ben Anderson, who has just returned from Helmand, the most violent province in Afghanistan. With US forces withdrawing, most of the country is now controlled by the Afghan government and its security forces, which people… Full story

Can Britain Handle the Rapes, Killings, and Clans in Somalia?

There's a big meeting in London tomorrow to talk about all of Somalia's problems. Officials from the UN, the African Union, the IMF, and 50 countries will be there to impart their wisdom/spout platitudes in a bid to help Somalia rebuild itself after two decades of conflict. Are t… Full story

This Is What Winning Looks Like

My Afghanistan War Diary

I didn’t plan on spending six years covering the war in Afghanistan. But with each year, casualties and deaths rose as steadily as the local opium crop and I became obsessed with what I witnessed there—how different it was from the conflict’s portrayal in the media and in officia… Full story

A Long Way from Home

It Was Probably the Internet, Not Chechnya, That Radicalized the Boston Bombers

What has America done to Chechnya? While we’ll still be searching for more information about the Tsarnaev brothers and what motivated them for months—if not years—to come, their roots in Chechnya and the history of that country are a good place to start. Full story

A Red Line for Syria - Obama Is Trapped by His Own Rhetoric

How perversely ironic it was, last Thursday, when Obama had to pay public homage to his predecessor—a guy whose invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intel about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction—at the same time he was weighing intel about possible chemical weaponry in Syri… Full story

Beyond the Mortar Fire: Sebastian Junger Remembers Tim Hetherington

There’s a moment in 'Which Way Is the Front Line from Here,' Sebastian Junger’s excellent new documentary about the life of acclaimed war photographer and Oscar-nominated British filmmaker Tim Hetherington, when Tim literally saves a man’s life. Full story

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Thomas Dworzak Takes Photos of Sad Marines and Taliban Poseurs

Thomas Dworzak's books often deal with war: 'M*A*S*H IRAQ' examined the daily lives of US Medevac teams in Iraq, and his latest, 'Kavkuz,' explored the impact of war on the Caucasus region. But oddly enough, in spite of shooting in some of the most hellish conditions imaginable, Full story

Ground Zero

Mali - France Vs. Jihad

Back in February, the only way to reach the city of Gao in northern Mali was to hitch a ride with the French convoys that rolled through the desert every few days. Along the way, a VICE production crew made friends with some French soldiers and chatted with them about what they t… Full story

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Steve McCurry Photographs the Human Condition

Steve McCurry's photo, 'Afghan Girl,' appeared on the cover of 'National Geographic' in 1985 during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and quickly became one of the most famous photos in the world. He has documented the human impact of wars across the world and collected numero… Full story